I think as soon as they started saying evacuate they should have been gotten busses and sending those with no transportation OUT - at least offering it.
Maybe a fair amount would have gone...
It really is a nightmare isn't it?
I can't, for the life of me, understand why they didn't do this. Tragic. Prayers for NO and all in path of the Hurricane; that this disaster-in-the-making will somehow be averted. Amen